Abu Daoud

Abu Daoud (1937-3 July 2010), born Mohammad Daoud Oudeh, was the planner and mastermind of the 1972 Munich Massacre during the Olympics, and he was one of the leaders of the Black September Organization.

Biography
Mohammad Daoud Oudeh was born in 1937 in Silwan, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family. He was a math and physics teacher in Jordan and Saudi Arabia before working at the justice ministry of Kuwait, and in 1970 he was one of the founders of Fatah, using the name "Abu Daoud". In 1971, he became the leader of the Black September Organization, and he planned the Munich Massacre in January 1972 alongside Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, Ali Hassan Salameh, and Abu Iyad, the secret chief of Black September. Daoud began to live in Eastern Europe and Lebanon afterwards, and he led armed units during the Lebanese Civil War. On 1 August 1981 he was shot five times at a hotel coffee shop in Warsaw by a Mossad assassin during Operation Wrath of God, and he claimed that the assassin was a Palestinian double agent who was executed ten years later. He was banned from heading to Ramallah after the Oslo Accords, so he moved to Syria and died in Damascus in 2010 of kidney failure.